Month: February 2018

After dedicating 18+ years of my life to teaching high school before retiring this year, I can say with authority that arming teachers with weapons is a very bad and dangerous idea. While some of my former colleagues may disagree, I assert that only more tragedy will occur on an armed-and-ready-to-shoot campus.

Most people who propose arming teachers have not set foot on a high school campus since they graduated. So let me enlighten you. Schools are over crowded. My last teaching assignment was at an at-risk school – the largest Title I school in Nevada. I had 230 students. Most classes exceeded 40 students. Desks were jammed so close together that in an effort to assist students, I had to squeeze between desks. In that type of proximity, a motivated student could have disarmed me in seconds.

Hello, solitary one. I'm a little uncertain a little diffident and hesitant to come a-knocking at your door. Is it yourself you are content with for company? It is, after all, the old reliable. Do you, perhaps, mistrust the throng, or will you just not suffer the fools? The privations of apartness need happy amelioration … Continue reading A note from the underground

You who walks in grace flashes the smile the covert glance from knowing eyes who knows me not but knows me all You who have pinned me under glass in a frame a collected butterfly with hidden colors for your eyes only You have no need to flaunt you move in rarefied air but not … Continue reading You who

Previous chapters are at https://wordpress.com/post/secret-lifeof.com/2534 and https://wordpress.com/post/secret-lifeof.com/2546 "No, don't come to my building. The lot is full and they're parking on the street. I'll meet you at the diner. It's right at the corner of Main and 5th. Oh shit.....how will I know you?" "I'll be the only one wearing a hat that says HI … Continue reading The Reveal

I wonder if you have ever seen those freaky pictures of cats, painted by an artist who was given LSD over a period of time. He was a talented painter￼, and the paintings started out to be beautiful pictures of a cat. As time went along, they grew a little more bizarre. They were still … Continue reading The LSD cats

previous stories are https://secret-lifeof.com/2018/02/18/743-5088/ and https://wordpress.com/post/secret-lifeof.com/2546 Thursday morning found Karla at the local butcher. Well, actually, dentist. She and her friends had called him The Butcher because of his reputation for bad jobs or not enough anaesthetic. But, he had filled the need for someone affordable in this sad neighborhood. "Can you make this look more … Continue reading The things we do for love

for previous story, see https://wordpress.com/post/secret-lifeof.com/2534 "Hello? Listen , I'm sorry, I ...." " It's okay. Don't worry, Paul. You didn't wake me up or anything. I just don't normally get many phone calls. The more I thought about your little request the more I laughed about it. It's something that I would probably do … Continue reading Better call Paul

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